Why isn’t
There a cure
For cancer
In this timeline
Is it pointless
It feels pointless
Perhaps
We’ll give it
Another go
Another spin
Round this planet
Another year
Growing gray
With age
It’s been a minute
It’s been an hour
It’s been days
Months
Since you’ve been
Gone
It hurts
It’s dull
It sucks
Losing people
You love
Afraid
Of losing
More
Loved ones
It’s a void
That somehow
We crawl out of
Facing days
That feel so short
The clock
Always runing
Full tilt
Like sand
In an hourglass
-A.H.
I lost my Aunt D to cancer this past July. It was hard, and it still is. The grief ebbs and flows. It’s never easy losing a loved one—it is just something we have to get through for the people we love, and for ourselves.
I also posted this poem on my social media (BlueSky, Threads & Facebook).
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Comments (4)
I know how you feel. I've lost too many loved ones to cancer. My sister also has brain cancer, although she's surviving the odds and doing well.
I lost my dad my ex husband my niece nephew and brother in law over last five years except my dad he died in 1988 it’s scary horrible frightening. 🦋♦️🦋
Loss is so hard, especially to horrors like cancer, though I was lucky. Big hugs
Your words are how I feel too, I lost my mum 20 years ago and it might as well have been yesterday. They are out of pain now and (hopefully) in a happier world. Thankyou for sharing such personal feelings xx